About 40 journalists, media executives, and academic researchers from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal met in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, April 22, for the fifth annual Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. The Colloquium followed up the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism.
One of the main topics of discussion was the technological challenges for traditional newsrooms to adapt to the new digital era. The assistant director of the Spanish newspaper El Pais and Brazilian journalists Daniela Bertocchi from Editora Abril and Pedro Dória from O Globo explained the efforts of their companies to improve the integration of traditional operations with new digital platforms.